2G scam: Now CBI faces Supreme Court ire
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for not including names individuals and private companies in its First Information Report (FIR) on the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
According to reports, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), in a letter, had mentioned certain individuals and private companies to be involved in the 2G scam. But the FIR registered by the CBI omitted those names.
The CBI reportedly defended itself by saying that the ?parties? were not named individually, as they were not the ?only ones? linked to the scandal.
On Nov 22, the CBI had told the Supreme Court that it expects to complete its 2G scam probe by March next year.
In an affidavit filed to the apex court, the CBI said it will wrap up its investigations in two months and file the chargesheet in another month.
The CBI is probing the alleged 2G spectrum scam where former Telecom minister A Raja was held personally responsible by the government’s auditor of costing a loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the nation through “illogical” sale of telecom spectrum in 2008.
?We are investigating the offences and for each charge there has to be evidence and documents. The CAG report is about financial impropriety and not a criminal act,? KK Venugopal, the CBI counsel, had told a bench of justice G.S. Singhvi and A.K. Ganguly.
The CBI will take two months to finish the investigation as it was examining transcripts relating to 5,000 calls (out of which 3,800 have been analysed), 6,000 files and 80,000 pages of documents.
